F3 Knoxville

No CMUesday

THE SCENE: A hint of fall in the air.  First time in the 50’s in a while
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Warmed up with 20 SSH on 4ct, Tie Fighters Left and Right x10, Rockettes x12, Imperial Walkers x10 mosey’d to pavilion for 10 tempo incline merkins and 10 tempo dips.
THA-THANG:
Mosey’d to lower parking lot for a 4 corner(ish) workout starting at corner 1 with 25 jump squats.  From there you bear crawl out to cone 1 about 20 yards out, once there switched to crab walks to cone two, then once at cone 2 back to bear crawls to cone 3.

25 gas pumpers at cone 3 then run to the 3rd corner at adjacent parking lot for 25 merkins, and then run to 4th and final corner for 25 dry docks.  Hope was to finish 4 rounds.  We didn’t quite get 4

Once 6 was up we completed a circuit in one parking lot.  Idea was one exercise at a time, performing 25 at one end, run to the other end of the lot for 20, run back for 15 and so on.  All the way to 5 reps

Once you completed 5 reps you moved on to the next exercise.

Exercises were: LBC, Flutter Kick, and F Mercury’s

Once completed we had time for one last “Hard as you can” up Baby Everest.  Then circled up.

MARY:
We did 10 SSH’s on 4ct.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We talked about loss and I shared this prayer:

Lord Jesus, thank you for guaranteeing the Day of no more death—whether by “natural causes” and aging, way too early “Homecomings,” or by senseless acts and dark circumstances. Though you have already removed death’s “sting” (1 Cor. 15:55-56), it still slaps us in the face, buckles our knees, and rocks our sensibilities,.

 

Thank you for validating our shock, encouraging our grief, and giving us tears. Standing before your friend’s grave, you wept before you raised Lazarus to life. You revealed your anguish before you exercised your power. Death is a violation. It’s not the way things are supposed to be.

 

It’s only because of your death and resurrection, we now gratefully affirm death isn’t sovereign, you are. Sin didn’t triumph, you did. Our funeral doesn’t get the last word, you do. Jesus, you are the grace giver and grave robber. Death’s keys are in your hand, and so are we.

With the same hand you will wipe every tear out of eyes, reach into our painful stories of loss now. We still have questions, but we don’t question your goodness and faithfulness. Because the Gospel is true, to be absent from the body is to be present with you. Life is Christ and death is gain. Our mourning is for this brief, painful moment; but eternal joy will come in the morning. Thank you, and So Very Amen.

 

 

 

 

 

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Back to Biz

THE SCENE:  Cooler than it has been.  Good morning to get out and go!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Started with 25 ssh on the 4ct, did some tie fighters right and left, some tempo merkins, a few windmills and a lap around the parking lot
THA-THANG:
Started with a mosey to the pavilion for 2 sets of 20 table rows and 20 dips

When completed headed to circus maximus.

Set up for a take on the Sea Biscuit.  End of the parking lot 20 merkins, 15 squats, 10 big boys, and 5 burpees.  Perform the exercises and then run one lap.  Second time around all the exercises and 2 laps.  So on until you perform all the exercises and get in 4 laps.

About 3/4 got in all 4 laps.  We did one final group of exercise and a lap to finish off.  After completion we headed to the cloud for a 5 minute ab closer.  An AMRAP circuit of one minute of LBC’s, Flutters, Freddy’s, Big Boys, and Gas Pumpers

After complete head back to the AO.

MARY:
See above
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Spoke about being purposeful and intentional with our time.  Told a story about my daughter throwing a lacrosse ball against the house.  I went out to tell her to stop and a bit later realized the reason she was throwing the ball against the house is because she was playing by herself.  I grabbed a stick and went out to throw with her, but it reminded me of how often I miss the small opportunities to spend time with people I love because I’m distracted.  Put it down.  Walk away.  Spend the time.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Thank you for the beer

THE SCENE: 59 and cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

1 Burpee

5 cherry pickers

some of these some of those
THA-THANG:
mosey over to the rock and we had 5 stations and a list of 5 exercises. you start and the first station and do 1 then run up to station 2 and do two. Run back to the first station and run up to station 3, and do 3. And so on and so forth.

  • merkns
  • air taps
  • V-ups
  • BBS
  • Squats

Everyone completed we mosey to the entrance to the auditorom.

  • 5 incline monkey humpers – audible because it’s a monkey humper

11’s

1 dip and run the long way around the parking lot to the porch and 10 4x plank jacks

 

MARY:
streching and cool down after 3 miles of running

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
remember the 2 greatest commandments

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence July 2nd Be there!

Bearing Our Burdens

THE SCENE: Warm and steamy mid-70s (great for generating sweat)

WARM-O-RAMA:
A plethora of SSHs, Merkins, Tempo Squats, Tie Fighters, and Grady Corns; A quick meander and mosey to the CMU pile and the pillars of the church

THA-THANG:

Dora-style load bearing… battle-buddies select a pillar of pain and station their CMUs for a sweet sweat sesh; HIM 1 works through reps at pillar while HIM 2 moves 1 or 2 CMUs to the center of the parking lot; After running back to swap, HIM 2 continues the reps while HIM 1 goes to gather the load and returns it to the pillar;  Rinse and repeat while moving through the exercises and reps collectively.

Exercise 1: 300 reps of Wall Sit Grady Corns

Exercise 2: 200 reps of CMU Squat Thrusters

Exercise 3: 100 reps of CMU Alternating Merkins

Exercise 4: 50 Blockees

On the way back to the CMU pile we stopped to load the dock; Each HIM moved their CMU on to the dock, jumped up on the dock, carried their CMU down the steps; Each worked in 2 reps; Waxjob inspired many to Rifle Carry Hold while waiting to load the dock.

MARY:

After dropping off our CMUs and a steady mosey back to the AO; the PAX enjoyed the great tradition of burpees for broken CMUs – fortunately we only had 1 block broken – so we did 10 burpees OYO

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 HIMs walked away huffing and sweaty…. no FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Galations 6:2-3 NLT… “Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.  If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself.  You are not that important.”

Expect the unexpected.  Life is full of challenges and burdens that sometimes we create ourselves.  The F3 PAX is here to help and will gladly help carry your burdens as men… but you have to make your need known. I love these men and would do anything to help any one of them.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence coming on July 2nd.

Shamrock – Treasure Hunt

THE SCENE: Hot and muggy sweat fest
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Run in circles 

Side shuffle then reverse 

High knees

Butt kicks

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 10

Tie Fighter 4 CT x 10 each

Cherry Pickers x5

Buns of steel balance (lean forward balancing on 1 foot with other leg balancing you behind, then do 4-count little up and down moves with rear leg while trying to maintain balance. We did 1 set of 10 per side.

Quad stretch

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the track and field 

Round 1: start at the end zone, run to the 10 yd line do 5 Big Boys, run back to the goal line do 5 merkins. Run to the 20, do 5 BBS, run back to the 0, repeat until we have done 50 BBS, 50 merkins and a lot of running. 

Round 2 the same deal, but with 20 single flutter kicks = 200 flutter kicks and 50 merkins. 

Round 3: the same deal, but with 20 single count American Hammers = we made it to the 50 yard line so we did 100 hammers and 25 merkin. 

With 5 minutes to spare, treasure hunt, then back to the flag. Slappy found the red T-rex. 

MARY:
Twinkle toes, LBCs and more buns of steel.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 – Voo Doo, Skid Mark, Honeydew, Betty, Pom-Pom, Dumpster Dive, Slappy, Pool Boy, Jenner, Osteen, Baby Boomer, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Matthew 6:19-21 – What do you treasure? 

From the devotions of Thomas à Kempis in “The Imitation of Christ” 

This is the greatest wisdom – to seek the kingdom of heaven through contempt of the world. It is vanity, therefore, to seek and trust in riches that perish. It is vanity also to court honor and to be puffed up with pride…It is vanity to wish for long life and to care little about a well-spent life. … It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides. 

MOLESKIN:
Prayer for the 14 yr old kid Silas who is in the hospital with a severe head injury.